<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Is that correct? If it’s a bike lane shared with all other traffic then that tag seems superfluous <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1057’s have a number of legitimate uses of varying utility - </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- marking advised position for cycling. Encouraging cyclists to take a central lane position ahead of a junction or obstruction. (Eg continuing a cycle lane around a bus stop). Often done very badly - frequently see them painted very close to parked cars so that would be at risk from dooring</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- as part of the marking along a signed cycle route. They can, usefully, give some comfort that you are still on a route between junctions and wayfinding signposts or road markings or give additional making at a junction (in addition to a signpost) By themselves they do not constitute a ‘route’ marking in my view. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- alerting drivers to the potential presence of cyclists. You often seem them painted across a junction,. This is just ’something must be done’ engineering and pretty much pointless - as the OP says, drivers should expect people on bikes everywhere not just where these are painted. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 19 Jan 2021, at 07:25, Jon Pennycook <<a href="mailto:jpennycook@bcs.org.uk" class="">jpennycook@bcs.org.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Hello Steven.<div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">That (on-road diagram 1057) is tagged as cycleway=shared_lane. It doesn't serve any practical purpose except in the minds of councils. The router I use ignores them. </div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Jon</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 19 Jan 2021, 01:29 Steven Hirschorn, <<a href="mailto:steven.hirschorn@gmail.com" class="">steven.hirschorn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I was wondering what this "cycling infrastructure" would be tagged as?<br class="">
That's a bike symbol placed in the main northbound lane, no advisory<br class="">
or mandatory segregation? I was also wondering why the council<br class="">
bothered at all, what use is painting a bike symbol in a main traffic<br class="">
lane? Is it a legal requirement if a nominal bike route goes that way,<br class="">
or is there any evidence that road users are more aware of cyclists if<br class="">
they see a symbol painted in the road occasionally?<br class="">
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